On Sun, 31 May 2009, Manuel Prinz wrote: > On Sat, May 30, 2009 5:29 pm, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > Okay, thanks. I went ahead and scheduled the required Bin-NMUs. > > Thanks! > > > Unfortunately, most of them failed, seemingly due to an error in > > alternatives handling: > > > > > > https://buildd.debian.org/~luk/status/package.php?p=arpack,blacs-mpi,boost1.37,boost1.38,gmsh,gpivtools,gromacs,hdf5,hypre,illuminator,libgpiv,libmesh,music,openmpi,paraview,parmetis,petsc,rmpi,scalapack,slepc,spooles > > > > Then there's a weird failure of boost1.38/amd64 with mpic++ segfaulting, > > and I didn't look at more stuff. > > > > Could you check what's wrong with the packaging? > > I will have a look at it ASAP. Unfortunately, it's not possible for me to > fix it before Tuesday. I'll upload a fixed version then. > > Raphael's suggestion is probably the solution to the problem. I already > suspected something like that. Interestingly, it did not show up when I > rebuild the packages (with pbuilder).
That's expected, the bad alternatives are cruft left-over from old upgrades... at one point in the past they were real master alternatives and then they got enslaved with another one without being properly removed before-hand. I don't know the history of the package so I have no idea which alternatives are concerned. If many packages are affected, it might make sense to factorize the cleanup code in dpkg's preinst directly. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Contribuez à Debian et gagnez un cahier de l'admin Debian Lenny : http://www.ouaza.com/wp/2009/03/02/contribuer-a-debian-gagner-un-livre/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
